georgia tech losing at home to virginia tech.loss for them yesterday. >> mike: i think they have to get to the finals now to right things and dust that resume up. wake forest, if you want to see the win to get to 19. a win or two in the tournament would help their odds. the pool is so weak for at large bids. >> tim: i would agree. >> mike: every time you think it's shallow, they let more water out of the pool. >> tim: that's true. a lot of teams had opportunities and not taken advantage of them. a lot of the power conferences coming into tonight's game. booker. can't get that one to fall. mcfarland takes it off the hardwood. smith has five turnovers. williams. it was a tremendous pass. >> mike: you like to see the big guy get rewarded for running. nobody identified where he was in transition. >> tim: tanner smith was a runner. wake got the largest lead of eight, clemson with a quick answer. not there for clark. taken down by booker. gary clark, the junior from sarasota entered the game moments ago. >> mike: the thing that slowed

future hokies' cheerleader trying to will on virginia tech.aney to victor davila for the dunk. davila with eight points. 16 seconds left in the game. the hokies down by one. nice execution. hudson makes it a one-point lead. 27 points in the game. seth greenberg saying, come on guys. uconn has a chance. great hokies' defense. walker recovers. hokies can't take a shot. bell gets a rebound. seth greenberg, look at that relief. a 65-63 win over uconn. >>> the maryland terps are trying to get over yesterday's loss to michigan state. gary williams, by the way, held a meeting at 4:00 this afternoon to talk to the team. last night he told them after the game how proud he was. this group rallied so ferociously to come within a second of making the sweet 16. to spokane, washington. the terps gave themselves life. they did not want to come back east. michigan state, they inbound quickly. this isn't going to happen. right? oh, man. to corey lucious. no one could believe that thing went in. as time expires michigan state breaking terps' hearts everywhere.

he's had terrific games down the stretch. 41 points against virginia tech. he was awesome against duke, hitting the game-winning shots. he deserves that honor. >> we should have the whole acc team now. >> john is a no brainer. he had a terrific season for duke. vazquez and another easy cal on first team. not a lot of big fellows. al-farouq aminu stumbled, but averaging a double double. delany has terrific. five 30-point games. this was tough, but nolan smith improved and is a big part of duke's success. >> it was hard to keep trevor booker off? >> it was. he's been so steady. >> i feel your cell phone blowing up as we speak. >> al-farouq aminu. >> tim: wake forest leads by two. let's go to jenn. >> jenn: it's because we are making bad decisions. if we can make better decisions and finish off the brakes against the press, we'll be in good shape. the run was made by clemson. >> mike: no pun intended but after winning four in a row, you have to stop the demons from in your head. this is going to be critical. >> tim: smith picking up the foul. his second. just u

it was put together by the virginia tech athletic director.e is on the bubble. >> i have been strong in conference play. why are you picking on kellie? >> she is from idaho. i'm sorry. it is where were you born. >> welcome back to washington post live weekend. we are getting you ready for the ncaa tournament. there is a different march madness now. the oscars and other things that are happening. let's go over to our girl anisha. >> thank you. the oscars sacha present an award, but was banned from the presenters list. i wonder why. >> i have to wonder. would probably make someone uncomfortable. >> exactly. and abc announced the lineup for "dancing with the stars." chad ochocinco and erin andrews and kate gosselyn will be there. who are the final two? >> ithinkk erin andrews. ochocinco needs to at that exhibit or keep >> if the suit quit. >> is going on with the tiger troubles. it is the return of shape ups. >> that old tiger woods. >> i want to be a better golfer. >> that is right. >> get everything out of the way. >> i don't know why they are

. >> dan: that's ano overtime win at virginia tech yesterday. number five duke on top of virginia.ly points leading the way. >>> acc sunday night hoops is delivered to you by pizza hut. right now get any pizza, any size, any crust and any toppings for one low price. all your favorite pizzas just the way you want them, only at your pizza hut. and brought to you in part by your local lexus dealer. and by just for men hair color. live forward. number five duke on the road and on top with nolan smith at the line. he drops in a free throw. >> dan: and that's his first point of the game. duke has built this 14-point lead without any offensive contributions by nolan smith. >> rich: mike krzyzewski was telling us before the ball game the complement of smith, scheyer and singler are called the big three because they provide so much scoring power for duke. but that's not always easy to balance three scorers at once. >> dan: well, one of the -- usually you have one scorer and that scorer is very assertive. that's the point mike krzyzewski was making. when you've got three guys who have to ble

transfer from binghamton who is allowed to practice and nigel munn son who played one year at virginia tech>> trust me this thing will be turned around alot quicker than people think. next year we want this place packed. we want to have a great home court. we competed with nationally ranked teams with three walk ones. so if i can get a little talent we'll be good. >> udc lost to central state 60-53. the firebirds finished the season 1-18 but don't bet against their coach. you know, when he was at iona he led them to three ncaa tournament appearances. the guy can coach. we wish coach rulen all the best. i'm dave feldman. have a good night. co

schoeman accepted a ride from two men in a dark colored picp truck with west virginia tech. while in the truck, one of the man physically assaulted the woman. she was able to get out of the truck. a family member picked up. she suffered minor injuries. police have recovered a stolen car with a 01-year-old girl inside. investigators said the mother left the car running in the driveway on capitol street near p street in northwest this morning when two suspects drove away with the little girl still in the car. if the suspect bailed out a few blocks away. paramedics took the child to the hospital as a precaution. a fairfax county sheriff's deputy accused of having sex with a female prisoner will be arraigned this morning. the 36 year-old was assigned to guard a 25 year-old female inmates when she was admitted at a local hospital. he was arrested on monday accused of inappropriate conduct. james heintz has been placed on administrative leave. president obama it's the road today looking to sell the health-care overhaul to a skeptical public. he is going to arrive soon in iowa. th

virginia tech plays in the malcolm delaney. top score showing off his shot for the hokies. tech had a 12 point lead but rhode island would rally. they would take the lead on a clear route for la month ole mer. got hurt on the play. tech is out. rhode island goes to the mst. two of the best, alexander ovechkin play to an overtime tie. decided in the shoot out. will ballet goalie and that's the game winner. caps have won all three meetings with the penguins this season. continue tomorrow night right here. >>> and we'll be right here watching. watching. thank you, ,, qqr >>> it was a very big show for some very small cars, general motors reviewed their personal ability concept vehicles. they can be recharged in a standard wall outlet. they can also be driven awe ton musely. looking to go the usv, which stands for ultra small vehicles. just don't get in a fender bender because e ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

. >>> blacksburg, rhode island beat virginia tech. the hokies are done im thn the n.i.t.t is a look at sports. >> are we done? >> that was cold! >> i thought there was something more. >> >>> a lot repeats? >> mostly cloudy and cool tomorrow, 41-48. showers in the evening. evening showers, nighttime showers, the cold front continues. more sunshine over the weekend. full day of sunshine saturday, clouds late sunday. things warm-up and settle down the middle of next week. >> i am keeping my mouth shut. >> i have your back. "nightline" is next. saving money on cereal. - bread. - laundry detergent. even paper towels and toothpaste. at safeway, we've made a promise to lower the prices... on thousands of everyday items throughout the store. and, with our club card specials like lucerne yogurt, only 40¢, and 12-pack pepsi or 7 up, buy 2 get 3 free, safeway is keeping that commitment. so you'll always get what you want, when you want it, - at the price you need. - today and tomorrow. that's our promise. that's ingredients for life. safeway. i'm a grass seed failure. well, i forget

on the college basketball front, virginia tech loses 79-72 to rhode island in the nit semifinals. >> coming up, we'll tell you >>> robert culp who teamed up with bill cosby in the tv series "i spy" died. he was 79. he hit his head while walking outside his home in hollywood hills. his death has been ruled accidental. "i spy" was considered ground-breaking television because it was the first time an african-american actor, cosby, starred in a dramatic series. >>> the postal service is one step closer to eliminating saturday deliveries. today the governing board agree to ask the regulatory commission for an opinion on this matter. that change could reportedly save more than $3 billion each year. the commission will review that request next week. it's definitely expensive having a growing family and it's something that you think about. we try to be conscious of that and plan out our meals so that we caneed everyone on a budget. at giantwe know saving money is important. every time you shop with your card, you can enjoy thousands of real deal savings and weekly specials, like top round

and virginia tech police say there is no danger to the campus after threats were made this week.say someone from italy sent threatening e-mails and internet postings. officials say even though the threats have been taken very seriously, the person making them is not in a position to cause any danger. >>> the fee limit in parts of virginia going up. they would be 70 miles per hour in interstates in rural or less populated areas of the state. the law will take effect on july 1 but transportation officials still have to sign off on whether it would be safe. governor bob mcdonnell supports the change. the vote passed the virginia house and senate this week. >>> spring has sprung. today is the first official day of the season and we're all happy to see that what an absolutely gorgeous day it was. the flowers starting to come out. the trees starting to bloom a little bit. a picture perfect day. a great day to walk around the mall, maybe take a picture. not complaining one tiny bit at aw. gwen tolbart in the weather center to give us -- get us started with this first full day of spring.

virginia tech. del roy james with the bang in the bucket for the rams. hokies season is over. they lose by seven. it looks like the best pitcher on the nats roster is not actually on the nats roster. steven who was demoted to the minors last week one hitter over four innings, struck out nine. we'll see him on june 1st in washington. nats and yankees tonight, that is a rod. and that's about as far as you can hit a baseball without it being a homerun triple. scoring former natt. mike shanahan said today that he totally disagrees with albert haynesworth's choice to skip last week but he does respect that albert came to him to tell him he was skipping. the skins announced contrary to rumors, it will be at redskins park for the 9th year in a row. tiger woods will hold a press conference a week from monday at the masters. it will be the first time he has faced a room full of reporters in five months. finally a jazz raptors tonight and if you can't play actual defense to stop a fast break, do what toronto did here. you grab the back of the other guy's shorts and he almost depanted th

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. >>> there is increased security at virginia tech after internet postings warned of another attack. police did not believe these attacks are credible. an over abundance of caution is necessary. these threats originated in italy collect the made by the same person >>> police are searching for a man who tried to obstruct a 16-year-old girl. this happened monday morning on saybrooke drive in bristow. as she was leaving her home, a man grabbed her and forced her to go back inside. she screamed and the man took off. >> this is terrible. >> we're going to go back and look for a suspicious persons, burglaries, assaults. >> of the borough was not injured. police have stepped up patrols in the neighborhood. >>> investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire at an annandale gas station. this on liver turnpike. nobody was injured. -- this wa on little river turnpike. >>> a man is in custody after leading police on a chase on the beltway. police pulled over a suspect last night. he then took off in a chevy malibu. police fault him for about half an hour. he pulled over. police arres

. >> still ahead, why students at virginia tech are on alert to night. >> and a virginia man is at the hospital, a victim of his pet monkey. >> as the water climbs, so do concerns in the midwest. the latest on the flooding is coming up. >> a senate committee >> there is increased security tonight on the bridge in the campus attack nearly three years after a student killed more than 30 students and professors. officials believe that the threats posed earlier this month are the same person. and university -- universities are dealing with a rash of suicides. three young men to their own lives at cornell. in all three cases, students were found in deep gorges underneath bridges around campus. >> the most important thing that i hope students on this campus learned, and every campus in the country, is to take care of oneself. we all need help at some time in our lives. >> in fact, cornell has taken the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students. >> a virginia man is in the hospital after being attacked by his pet monkey. neighbors have provi

. >> after five straight wins, including a double overtime thriller over virginia tech saturday, could the terps >> final look at the seven-day forecast. it looks like we will see some warmer air moving back into the picture. but first mother nature wants to make sure you get more snow, rain mix tuesday to wednesday. we could get light accumulation, about a ways to an inch across the city. eastern shore one to three. and watch the track closely to see. and 43 thursday. 47 by friday. lets jump to the weekend. saturday, sunday, monday, lower 50s. with plenty of sunshine. so it looks like a great weekend. everybody will be cramming the car washes, trying to just clean off the salt. back to you guys. >> look at that, mild, mild, mild. how do you like it? >> we like it a lot. >> yeah. >> well, maryland is getting ready for wednesday night's huge game against duke. >> bruce cunningham joins us with the latest on "sports unlimited". bruce, you like the true connection, didn't you? >> andrew true, very good. >> coming up on "sports unlimited".

and all it takes is one episode like we had at virginia tech, god hope we don't have it. if it is the price will be paid by the ones who made the decisions to make these budget cuts. >> got to take a break. we'll be right back. stay with us. >>> welcome back. so, joe and dave what do you think about virginia's threat to file a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the healthcare reform bill? >> well, this comes on two fronts at this point in time as the house works so overwhelmingly if i can say this word on this particular bill. in virginithe feeling is that the bill is unconstitutional because it forces, there's a mandate to cover everybody. they want to cover everybody, add to the roles and you have to have insurance. they say that's unconstitutional. then on the mechanics of the bill, the house democrats are coming with a proposal to deem and pass its called, in other words ey hate t senate bill, the house does. th don't think it does -- it has too many giveaways, sweetheart deals. they want changes made. so they voted on the changes. they are going to vote. the

. >>> in the men's nit the end of the road for virginia tech.he hokies bested a 12-point lead in blacksburg. tech loses to rhode island 79- 72. >>> last nights game between the capitals and penguins went to a shootout and the here rope, a player who had never scored a shootout goal. >> he can win it right now. he scores! >> reporter: mike's goal is a game winner. caps beat the dreaded penguins 4-3. >>> the wizards have tied a franchise record and not the good kind. they lost their 13 t street game last night falling to the pacers 99-82. they can break the record tomorrow night in charlotte. let's hope they don't. >>> it is 6:50. 48 degrees here in northwest washington. a federal disaster declaration from last month's snowstorm. in three minutes, that what that means for the district. gÑÑÑññ [ crowd cheering ] male announcer ] competition... it pushes us to work harder. to be better. to win. but sometimes even rivals realize they share a common goal. america's beverage companies have removed full-calorie soft drinks from schools, reducing bevera

virginia tech falls to rhode island 79-72. >>> and our continuing coverage gilbert arenas will be sentencedl time asking for at least three months behind bars. larry hughes who was in the town with the bob cats last night is still very good friends with gilbert and has been giving him support and advice throughout. boykins i being he's learned -- i think he's learned. reality has set in. he's focused on letting everybody know that he knows that he -- that he made a mistake, you know and moving forward. he's a guy that i'm sure we won't judge him after the fact, after he's served his debt or paid his dues or whatever the case may be, but i'm sure the people that know him won't judge him after the fact because they know who se. boykins sentencing set 2:00 friday. we'll be on the air as soon as the sentence asking revealed. ivan carter your host, ron thompson and joe dejenner, followed by an hour-long sportsnet. >>> up next, some extra hockey and the caps gave the fans a huge thrill. check out our top five texts of the night. geico sportsnite back in 60 seconds. . >>> and no. 1 tonight and the

that ended with san of monumental victories, including a double overtime game win against the virginia tech hokies. the season ending victory over the university of virginia placed the terrapins as the number two seed going into the atlantic coast finals quarterfinals. they concluded their regular 2009-2010 atlantic coast conference season with an impressive 13 wins and three losses. earning first place honors along with the top rank duke university blue devils. i'd like to point out as a point of personal privilege and note that one of the three losses that maryland face this had year was to the demon deacons of wake forest university, my alma mater, but i stand here nonetheless in support of our hometown maryland terps. the season got off to a promising start with star player greivis vasquez electing to foregogh the national basketball association draft and play his senior year with the terrapins. it proved to be a good decision because he averaged 19.6 points per game during the season. he even scored a career high 41 points in a single game. it was a rare feat for any basketball star. i

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman virginia tech. mr. bishop: once again the process here is not about whether a program is popular or not. endangered species act is pop pew already within certain groups. higher ed has popularity. elementary education has popularity. the issue here is do we adequately review these particular programs to see where we are and what our priorities ought to be? and if we don't, we have a tendency of losing those in the moreas of the rest -- morass of the boddy, the plethora of organization that is we simply have. this does not technically sunset the program. it sunsets the authorization for the appropriations for the program. the program goes on until further action is taken by this particular body. but it is the sequence that we use to try and see should we redo, should we recontinue, should we at least re-evaluate what we are supposed to be? when we don't do those kind of re-evaluation, we abrogate legislative responsibility and we pass it on to an compkive branch which sometimes -- executive branch which s

we see the five now in alexandria and the major virginia tech graduate born. are we doing everything we should or maybe there should be a development of a different approach clearly what we used to say is no longer the case because it is a problem. are you thinking deep in so far as how we deal with this from a different way we continue to adjust because maybe we were not doing as well as maybe people said we were in comparison of other countries. >> i do think there are somewhat different problems the u.k. faces where it has communities would that have been alienated and to a certain extent i guess you would say dispossessed and they are focused on the radicalization and many of these communities. we have a diverse community, diverse communities muslims in the united states. and we have -- we are all immigrants and we have immigrants for any number of african countries, middle eastern countries and the like so there are very few areas you can look at and say okay these are pockets. >> i am an immigrant family, too. one half is green and my grandfather could b

we see the five now in alexandria and the major virginia tech graduate born.g everything we should or maybe there should be a development of a different approach clearly what we used to say is no longer the case because it is a problem. are you thinking deep in so far as how we deal with this from a different way we continue to adjust because maybe we were not doing as well as maybe people said we were in comparison of other countries. >> i do think there are somewhat different problems the u.k. faces where it has communities would that have been alienated and to a certain extent i guess you would say dispossessed and they are focused on the radicalization and many of these communities. we have a diverse community, diverse communities muslims in the united states. and we have -- we are all immigrants and we have immigrants for any number of african countries, middle eastern countries and the like so there are very few areas you can look at and say okay these are pockets. >> i am an immigrant family, too. one half is green and my grandfather could barely speak

tech cars to more than go fast and save energy. >>> what i may think -- what i think may end up being the best term -- the best game of the tournament. west virginia. >>> st. patrick's day -- you will see green beer and extra police. >>> blue skies. [ beeping ] ♪ my country ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i sing [ laughs ] ♪ oh, land ♪ where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring ♪ >>> an update on breaking news and prince george's county. police have stopped a car from a high-speed chase. it was on the beltway in greenbelt, maryland. the car was stopped when officers pulled their weapons. the pursuit has ended on kenilworth avenue. >>> this is st. patrick's day. that is why we are wearing green. many people are enjoying the festivities. police are urging people not to drink and drive. they recommend that customers drink responsibly. many have taxicab's outside with those who have had too many. they will have a sobriety checkpoints set up throughout the night. soberride is offering free taxicab rides. the number on your screen -- services available until 4:00 a.m. the largest s

virginia tech the strength of schedule 132, that could be a bit of a burden but virginia tech is in auation if they keep winning they're okay. you know, florida state and wake forest are going t welome, scheyer certainly gives you that. i mean this is a guy that makes all the plays. he is a very effective shooter. he gets into the lane and can use his quickness to get there and his size to score. obviously a great hustle play coming up with the basketball, so he gives you all the effort that you can want and then he's able to take the ball and get it all the way to the goal, so he's one of those guys you have to guard him in all area of the floor because he can shoot the three, pull up and shoot the jumper, drive the ball to the basket and find open teammates. >> rich: that's a high-low plumlee look from mason plumlee to miles plumlee. marshall plumlee is in the building tonight, the third of the plumlee brothers. you can see scheyer's line. >> dan: interestingly enough, the third plumlee brother is here on a recruiting visit to virginia. >> rich: he plays in the same prep school in n